This course is meant for students in engineering and other disciplines who seek a challenging, interactive, team-based, and hands-on learning experience in entrepreneurship and technology. In this highly experiential course, students work in simulated start-up teams to create products or start-up ideas to address a broadly-defined need of an industry partner or social challenge.

In this course, students will learn about how innovative technologies are used to detect, prevent, and manage environmental disasters, such as those used for oil spills or wildfires. Students will learn about the technology gaps that exist at every level of disaster response, and how new solutions can help experienced individuals from industry, government, and beyond become more effective at preventing and managing disasters. By understanding the stakeholders, end-users, and problems involved, students will utilize the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship and Lean Methodology to ideate and innovate potential solutions. Students from all majors are encouraged to enroll in the Disaster Technology challenge lab. Students will work in teams for the majority of projects and teams with a cross-disciplinary background have the advantage of creating more holistic and adoptable solutions. Corporations, start-ups, and mentors from governmental agencies, will provide context and feedback to teams as they engineer new innovations to combat the many challenges presented by environmental disasters.

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